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*** 1/2 JOHN PARISH & POLLY JEAN HARVEY, “Dance Hall at Louse Point,” Island. In this side project with her bandmate, Harvey takes her familiar themes--obsession, deception, dread and emotional extremes--even closer to the edge than she has under her own name.
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